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What Whale Watching Week in Oregon can tell us about climate change

  • Mia Maldonado

It’s Whale Watching Week in Oregon, which means coastal visitors will get the chance to spot gray whales as they swim north to their Arctic feeding grounds.  Each winter, gray whales travel to the warm tropical waters of Baja California, Mexico where they reproduce and raise their calves. In the spring, they migrate north to […]

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Steider watched polar bears sleep, dig, scratch, sniff and swim. Here, bears pause to show off their big webbed feet and thick fur.

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The six bears encountered by local photographer Linda Steider are among just 300 remaining in Svalbard, with ice there melting seven times fas…

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Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Sea Lion problem

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To the editor: The good efforts by the Yakama Tribe to help protect salmon and steelhead runs from predation by sea lions, I really appreciate. However, until sea lions that are killing salmon and steelhead are killed and not just hazed, the problem of decimated runs of these fish will probably get a lot worse.

Sea lions focus of fish survival war
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Sea lions focus of fish survival war

  • By Gillian Flaccus, The Associated Press
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The 700-pound sea lion blinked in the sun, sniffed the sea air and then lazily shifted to the edge of the truck bed and plopped onto the beach below.